Early life

Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, the daughter of Scottish parents, Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher; her father was working as a banker in Oman for the United Nations at the time of her birth. When she was a child, Fisher and her family moved back to their hometown in Bathgate, Scotland, then to Perth, Western Australia, when she was 6 years old. She has four brothers and has said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life".

Fisher attended Methodist Ladies' College and Swanbourne Primary School. She appeared in lead roles in school productions such as Little Shop of Horrors. At 21, she studied at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she learned clown, mime and commedia dell'arte.

Career

Fisher began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of 9, before going on to win roles in popular children's television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. At 18, with the help of her mother, she published two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, and in a 2005 interview, Fisher admitted that had she not been successful as an actress she would probably have been a full-time writer. From 1994 to 1997 she played the role of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away. In 1996, she received a Logie Award nomination for Most Popular Actress for her role. After leaving the soap, Fisher enrolled at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, a theatre and arts training school in Paris, and went on to appear in pantomime in the United Kingdom. She also toured with Darren Day in the musical Summer Holiday and appeared in the London theatre production Così. In 2001, Fisher was cast as Kim in the German horror film Swimming Pool.

In 2002, she had a role in the film version of Scooby-Doo as Mary Jane, Shaggy's love interest, who is allergic to dogs. She wore a blonde wig for portraying her role because Daphne Blake (portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar) was supposed to be the only redhead in the film. The following year, she portrayed the character Kristy in the Australian comedy The Wannabes. Subsequently, Fisher was taken on by an American agent. A larger role in Wedding Crashers (2005), alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, won her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards. While promoting Wedding Crashers, she was officially crowned the 1000th guest on Australian talk show Rove on 2 August 2005. She entered the set ahead of Owen Wilson, winning the title by two metres.

In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host, in the relationship drama London, co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans, and Jason Statham. She played the role of Katie in the romantic comedy Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs. In 2007, she appeared in The Lookout, a thriller film co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, and Hot Rod, opposite Andy Samberg. She was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version. In 2008, she starred in the critically acclaimed romantic comedy film Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, and Abigail Breslin, and had a voice role in Horton Hears a Who! Fisher has also co-written a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen. She starred in the movie adaptation of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, which opened on 13 February 2009. In the film, Fisher played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction. Confessions of a Shopaholic suffered critically but eventually opened at No.4, grossing $15,054,000 on its opening weekend. Fisher received her third Teen Choice Award nomination.

Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for female comedians in Hollywood. In 2010, she starred in the black comedy Burke and Hare. Fisher then voiced the role of Beans in Rango, a computer-animated Western film released in March 2011. In the movie, Johnny Depp and her Definitely, Maybe co-star Abigail Breslin also provide voice-over roles.

In another voice-over role, Fisher voiced the character of Tooth (the Tooth Fairy) in the animated film Rise of the Guardians, which was later released in 2012. In 2013, she starred in the Baz Luhrmann adaptation of The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio and the magician crime thriller Now You See Me with Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson. She also appears in several episodes of the fourth season of Arrested Development, released in 2013.

Fisher dropped out of Now You See Me sequel, Now You See Me 2 in 2014 due to her third pregnancy, subsequently she was replaced by actress Lizzy Caplan. In 2016, she appeared in the comedy film Grimsby, and will next star in another comedy, Keeping Up with the Joneses.

Personal life

Fisher first met the English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in 2002 at a party in Sydney, Australia. The couple became engaged in 2004 and married on 15 March 2010, in Paris, France. The couple have two daughters and one son, Olive (born 2007), Elula Lottie Miriam (born August 2010), and Montgomery Moses Brian (born 2015).

Before marrying, Fisher converted to Judaism, saying, "I will definitely have a Jewish wedding just to be with Sacha. I would do anything—move into any religion—to be united in marriage with him. We have a future together, and religion comes second to love as far as we are concerned." She completed her conversion in early 2007, after three years of study. She took the Hebrew name Ayala (איילה), the Hebrew word for a doe, and has described herself as keeping the Jewish Sabbath.

Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian", she has a "laid-back attitude to life", and she feels she is "very Australian". Her mother and siblings live in Athens, Greece, while her father divides his time between Frankfurt, Germany and Nicaragua.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Bay Cove	Vanessa Walker	Series
	Paradise Beach	Robyn Devereaux Barsby	2 episodes
1994-97	Home and Away	Shannon Reed	345 episodes
1999	Oliver Twist	Bet	Miniseries
2000	Sunburn	Woman	Episode: "2.1"
	Hearts and Bones	Australian Barmaid	Episode: "I Need a Love Song"
2001	Attila	Cerca	Miniseries
2002	BeastMaster	Demon Manaka	Episode: "The Trial"
	Random Acts of Intimacy	Woman in Club	Short
2004	Pilot Season	Butterfly	Episode: "1.6"
2010	Neighbors from Hell		3 episodes; voice
2011	Bored to Death	Rose	2 episodes
2013	Arrested Development	Rebel Alley	Season 4; 9 episodes
2015	Sofia the First	Button (voice)	Episode: "The Littlest Princess"

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	Bum Magnet	Emma	Short film
1998	Furnished Room	Jennie	Short film
2000	Out of Depth	Australian Girl #1
2001	The Pool	Kim
2002	Dog Days	Bianca
	Scooby-Doo	Mary Jane
2003	The Wannabes	Kirsty
	Dallas 362	Redhead
2004	I Heart Huckabees	Heather
2005	Wedding Crashers	Gloria Cleary
	London	Rebecca
2006	Wedding Daze	Katie
2007	The Lookout	Luvlee
	Hot Rod	Denise
2008	Definitely, Maybe	April
	Horton Hears a Who!	Dr. Mary Lou Larue	Voice role
2009	Confessions of a Shopaholic	Rebecca Bloomwood
2010	Burke and Hare	Ginny Hawkins
2011	Rango	Beans	Voice role
2012	Bachelorette	Katie
	Rise of the Guardians	Tooth Fairy	Voice role
2013	The Great Gatsby	Myrtle Wilson
	Now You See Me	Henley Reeves
2014	Life of Crime	Melanie Ralston
2015	Visions	Eveleigh
	Klovn Forever	Herself	Cameo
2016	Grimsby	Jodie Figgs
	Keeping Up with the Joneses		Post-production
	Nocturnal Animals	Laura Hastings	Post-production

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
2006	MTV Movie Awards	Best Breakthrough Performance	Wedding Crashers	Won
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Breakout (Female)	Wedding Crashers	Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Hissy Fit	Wedding Crashers	Nominated
2008	Elle Women in Hollywood Awards	Icon Award		Won
2009	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Actress: Comedy	Confessions of a Shopaholic	Nominated
2011	Alliance of Women Film Journalists	Best Animated Female	Rango	Won
2013	AACTA Awards	Best Supporting Actress	The Great Gatsby	Nominated
2014	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Arrested Development	Nominated

[ Source: Wikipedia ]